Find the latest documentation at: http://incubator.apache.org/npanday Before building the npanday-plugin project, build the npanday-components project and then go to the scripts directory and execute the install script. It will install the nunit.framework.dll and other 3rd party libs into the local Maven repo. Logs: 900-999 : maven-compile-plugin 1000-1099: maven-install-plugin 1700-1799: maven-repository-plugin 1100-1199: maven-test-plugin 1200-1299: maven-webapp-plugin 1300-1399: maven-wsdl-plugin 1400-1499: maven-xsd-plugin 1500-1599: maven-resgen-plugin 1600-1699: maven-resolver-plugin